Another Microsoft Exec Steps Down

Arcanimus writes "On Tuesday, the corporate vice president of Windows Live and MSN marketing, Martin Taylor, announced that he is leaving Microsoft. Just three months ago, Taylor was appointed to his new position to manage the marketing of Windows Live. In his 13 years with the company, Taylor even worked directly with CEO Steve Ballmer."

What did he take when he left

[Anonymous Coward]

I hope he took his chair!

Incoming Obligatories

[MrNonchalant]

Cue chair jokes in 3...2...1...

No surprise

[VisceralLogic]

After that many chairs flying in my direction, I'd quit, too. :)

Windows Live

[Anonymous Coward]

Its obvious why he left. Check his picture - he is quite obviously a vampire, and one of the undead. Putting him at the wheel for something called "Windows Live" means there is quite obviously a conflict of interest.

They are being replaced

[damburger]

By Robots! [slashdot.org]

It's Raining CEO's

[Foofoobar]

At this rate, this will just leave Ballmer in a room full of empty chairs! SOMEONE CALL THE NATIONAL GUARD!!

Re:Incoming Obligatories

[Red Flayer]

You're late by 4 minutes. The chair jokes are quicker because people don't even have to think to do them, they are done by pure muscle memory. Unless you're positive of getting FP on an MS-exec article, I think you should write: "Cue chair jokes in -1, -2, -3."

No reason given = Moving to Google ?

[tobozo]

maybe he finnaly Got the facts ?

Re:sinking ship?

[joshier]

They must have been honest in a meeting... *bill gates stands up*.. I'm sorry guys, we decided to face the truth.. vista is a pile of shit, and I for one am leaving.. thank you *bill gates walks out of room crying*

Conversations between Ballmer and Taylor:

[GonzoTech]

Taylor - Sir I've decided that my time here is done..

Ballmer - Wooh! Wooooh! Woooh! Woooooooh!

Taylor - Seriously sir, I have to move on now.

Ballmer - Woooh! Woooooooooh! Yipee! Wooooh!

Taylor - I'm leaving now.. going to lunch with Bill to tell him too.

Ballmer - Woooh! Woooooooh! Yay! Wooooooh!

Taylor - *Sigh*

Ballmer - Wooooooh! Wooooooh! Woooooooooooooooooh!

Tune of the day

[Anonymous Coward]

(Music is Yesterday, by the Beatles)

Yesterday
All my competitors seemed so far away
Now it looks as though they're here to stay
Oh I believe in yesterday
Suddenly, my head has half the hair that used to be
There's an office chair hanging over me
Oh yesterday, came sudlenly
Why Linux had to come
It wouldn't say
We did Netscape wrong
Now I long for yesterday
Yesterday
Monopoly was such an easy game to play
Now I need to catch up with IP
Now I long for yesterday
Yesterday

At the risk of sounding redundant...

[DaSenator]

...but wouldn't it just be best for Microsoft to have Balmer leave? While I'm no Microsoft insider, I still think that most, if not all, of Microsoft's problems could just be solved if Steve Balmer left.

On a slightly related note, imagine if Balmer was re-programmed to work for Apple.

Megalomaniacal Steve vs. Crazy Steve with a quiet joker Steve off to the side.

Who cares

[Monster_Juice]

Who cares if a VP left the company? The only reason this is news is because it is from Microsoft. A VP left my company a while back and I never saw it in the news, he was even the VP of IT.

Here on Slashdot if the article contains "Microsoft" it becomes an important story.

Next on Slashdot...."Mailroom clerk leaves Microsoft, claims he is tired of putting free AOL disks in all the mailboxes.

Didn't realize they were THAT evil!

[RangerRick98]

No holes barred get the sale

Yikes! That sounds even more painful than I would expect from Microsoft.

No HOLES barred?

[saleenS281]

Exactly what holes did you think should be barred?

Here's a hint: that phrase pertains to fighting, and it's no HOLDS barred.

Re:No HOLES barred?

[spun]

I like his version better, 'any hole is fair game, no bars on these holes!' That's dirty. I like it. Anyway, the point is moo. You know, like the opinion of a cow. It's "moo."

In other news, noted playwright William Shakespeare was at the beach when he bent over and heard a ripping sound. Convinced he had torn his swim trunks, he asked a companion to look behind and report. "No holes, Bard" was the reply.

You gotta wonder

[oahazmatt]

I wonder if in his announcement, he concluded with: "And all of the friends I've made these past 13 years can still contact me at my new address, [e-mail]."

*sounds of struggling in the background*

"We bolt them down now, Steve."

Re:Cringely's predictions

[hhghghghh]

Well, you know what they say about stopped clocks.

Re:sinking ship?

[Red Flayer]

I've heard of rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic (as was referenced during the last management restructuring at MS) but at some point you have to wonder whether there will be any chairs left to rearrange.

And despite the obvious chair ha-ha, what I really mean in this analogy is that so many execs are leaving that pretty soon a re-org will just mean Ballmer gets a new title. Chair == Exec, for those of us (like me) who are a little slow in the AM.

Re:What did he take when he left

[drinkypoo]

If he worked with Ballmer, he's probably taken a chair, one way or another...

Ditech spoof

[llamaxing]

uh-oh, we lost another one to Google!

Vista bloodletting?

[jafac]

This is really starting to sound like a bloodletting in response to the Vista release debacle.

Who knew that *consequences* could find the folks in Microsoft's executive suite.

Well, at least if the DOJ, FTC, and SEC can't effectively regulate monopolies, their natural hubris can bring them down. . .

Coming from an old Mac fanboy...

[NilObject]

Please say "beleaguered". Oh, please say "beleaguered"!

Re:It's getting so old

[WeAreAllDoomed]

Enough with the chairs! It's not funny anymore!

all your base are belong to chair!

Re:What did he take when he left

[Anonymous Coward]

Not that there's anything wrong with that...

I am weasel

[Joebert]

I don't know if that guy looks more like Dracula, or a blood sucking weasel in that photo.

Perhaps

[Trogre]

he finally Got The Facts